via press release:
SYFY'S 'Warehouse 13' RULES TUESDAY WITH SERIES HIGHS AS TOP SCRIPTED DRAMA
New York, NY – July 29, 2009 – Warehouse 13, Syfy's hit new original scripted series, reached series highs in both Adults 25-54 (1.8 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.4 million) with the fourth episode entitled "Claudia," featuring Allison Scagliotti as the newest team member. The one-hour dramedy which aired last night (9-10pm) delivered a 2.4 Household rating and 3.3 million total viewers.
This bests last week's new episode by +36% in Adults 25-54 and +31% in Adults 18-49 and tops the previous highs set by the July 7th series premiere by +6% in both Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54.
The "Claudia" episode is also the top delivery in Adults 25-54 for any scripted series telecast on the network since the July 2006 series premiere of Eureka, and is the best in-season (excluding premieres and finales) delivery for any Syfy scripted series in Adults 25-54 since DVR measurement began in 2006 (Note that with the full 7-day DVR measurement the 7/7 Warehouse 13 premiere added half a million total viewers including nearly 250,000 Adults 25-54s and 200,000 Adults 18-49s.).
In the 9pm hour, Syfy delivered more Adults 25-54 than ABC and more Males 25-54 than both ABC and Fox.
Warehouse 13 was the top scripted drama in cable on Tuesday night in both key demos, beating TNT's new episodes of Hawthorne and Saving Grace among others.
Warehouse 13 follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse's caretaker Artie (Saul Rubinek) charges Pete (Eddie McClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the warehouse itself. Warehouse 13 airs Tuesdays @ 9pm ET/PT only on Syfy.
The series is produced for Syfy by Universal Cable Productions. It is executive produced by Jack Kenny (The Book of Daniel) who also serves as showrunner. David Simkins (Dresden Files) is executive producer; and Stephen Surjik (Monk, Burn Notice) is producer/director of the series.
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It was a really good episode.
This both astonishes and annoys me. It astonishes me because Warehouse 13 is a good, but not great, series. It annoys me because when Syfy actually tries to make good, quality science fiction (Battlestar Galactica) it barely grabs an audience.
Jimmy, exactly the same here.
but lets face it Warehouse13 is way easier to watch for the casual viewer then BSG ever was. with BSG it was allways a love it or leave it thing because of the heavy serialisation and the much darker premise. nothing you could just jump into and feel good about it like Warehouse13.
Very nice! Warehouse 13 is clearly not heavy or deep but it’s sorta fun and I like it. I’ll keep watching!
bsg was huge for 2 seasons, then it went to crap. Don’t blame the audience, they were there. The show let them leave.
At the risk of inflaming some BSG vs. W13 fanwar:
BSG week 4: 2.3 million viewers 25-54
W13 week 4: 1.8 million viewers 25-54
BSG week 4: 2.0 million viewers 18-49
W13 week 4: 1.4 million viewers 18-49
QW, way to bring the numbers! Let the fanwar begin!
And for those rule keepers out there, I don’t think comparing *cable* numbers from past seasons to this season is necessarily a violation of the Gunsmoke Rule, but I’m happy to hear dissent on the subject.
This episode also had one of the better lines is quite a while. Claudia says, “Serendipity, that’s my porn name.” when confronted by an absurdly ridiculous plot point.
Kudos to the writer to inject humor to distract viewers from breaking the suspension of disbelief.
If you like the Indian Jones movies, X-Files, and if you like either Castle, Moonighting from the 1980′s or Bones. Then Warehouse 13 is for you.
Just so good easy relaxing Sci-Fi. BSG is too deep.
Currently downloading Sanctuary episodes. Interesting show with a strange feel to it, due to the CGI backgrounds. Some ugly butt monsters. Supposedly will return to SyFy this fall.
Hey, where’s my gravatar? I went over and logged into the gravatar site and the pic is there and it shows on my other posts here, but not on this one? Que pasa?
And now it shows on my last post, but not the previous post? WTF?
I am surprised WH13 is doing well … its ok , but not great. I think it has potential but so far it hasnt done much, in my opinion.
If you want dark and dramatic, there’s always Caprica and Stargate Voyager 90210.
Warehouse 13 is a fun contrast to the others.
I like warehouse 13 just not Saul Rubinek, only drawback I see.
Saul Rubinek is one of the few reasons I have for giving the show a chance! Haven’t watched this week’s episode, will be interested to see if there’s a quality improvement.
I agree with Jimmy, only BSG was to blame for tanking BSG ratings. It really went off the rails after season 2.
Actually, the line was “Serendipity… that’s my stripper name.” And it was one of the better episodes so far in the very young run. I’m on board for now to see where the magical mystery tour goes.
As for BSG… tried it. Didn’t like it. Moved on. ::shrugs::
I just hope they took care of their geographically-challenged write who, in the pilot, put a college called University of Southern Iowa or Southern Iowa University (one of those two) in a fictional town in North Central Iowa. That was my stress-busting laugh for the night.
writer, that is.